I’ve been using JetBrains IDEs for over a decade but rarely open them anymore because working on several worktrees concurrently is extremely frustrating and wasteful. Their AI strategy is all over the place and they always wanted to sell their opaque and overpriced tokens, which made no sense. I hope they get their act together.

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cdmckay 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I canceled my subscription after like 12 years because I realized all the things that made it great aren’t really needed anymore. The “it just works” tooling, refactoring, jumping around code, etc.

Now my agents mainly write code under my direction and I review it either in the harness or on GitHub.

I hadn’t opened it in ages and when I did need an IDE something like Zed was more than sufficient.

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NBJack an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Part of what I've loved about JetBrians tools has been the navigation and deep semantics for large code bases. Zed is pretty basic in that regard. My agents usually get what I need, but when they go off the rails, cleanup gets interesting.

But I'll admit to keep my skills from atrophying, there are some projects of mine I don't touch with AI.

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XorNot an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Code review is the problem I'm currently trying to figure out for myself. I've never liked GitHub PRs but I'm not 100% sure what I want instead (which is possibly just: it feels like it should be a VS Code plugin... But maybe I don't like VS Codes interface that much either?)

	▲	sa46 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		IntelliJ supports pretty decent GitHub code review in the editor. It shows the modified code in the gutter and review comments. I use it when I need to deeply understand a PR.

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Deukhoofd 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, their worktree implementation was very recently hacked in, and it really doesn't work well. The IDE project list duplicate entries for every worktree, IDE project settings don't transfer across worktrees, and every time I switch to another worktree it asks me again what project I want to open, instead of just opening the same solution I have opened.

It's wild that a set of IDEs that are generally fairly good just completely fail in this basic workflow. I really wonder what went through the minds of the product owners and developers that implemented this.

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kowbell 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I also have to work in multiple workspaces simultaneously, and it drives me up the wall every time one of my IDE windows freezes (sometimes even just from inserting a Tab), because now ALL of them are frozen.

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gwerbin 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought so too until I learned that there is a dedicated worktree switcher hidden away as a tab in the GitHub pain. Now I can open each worktree in a separate window as if it were its own project. Maybe that's not everyone's ideal work though, but it's exactly what I want 99% of the time.

But I don't use it for AI assistant development, it's definitely meant for humans and not AI agents.

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anigbrowl 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same. I like their products but they have a problem with feature creep and design debt, and their AI tools are extremely in your face while also being underwhelming. I don't know if I'm going to renew my subscriptions.

	▲	andix an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I disabled all the AI tools in my JetBrains IDEs. They suddenly feel so much better. Less intrusive completions, suggestions and better performance. An IDE still has it's uses, and it's perfectly fine without AI. Agents and IDEs have never felt like something that should be combined in my opinion.

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sumedh an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Been a paid user for a very long time but now Claude Code and Codex do the job, dont need Jetbrains anymore.

I just could not understand their AI strategy.

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nimchimpsky 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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